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Roberto Bolaño’s own preferred literary persona was as a poet and Tres is his most inventive and bracing collection. As the title implies, the collection is composed of three sections. ‘Prose from Autumn in Gerona’, a cinematic series of prose poems, slowly reveals a subtle and emotional tale of unrequited love by presenting each scene, shattering it, and piecing it all back together, over and over again. The second part, ‘The Neochileans’, is a sort of On the Road in verse, which narrates the travels of a young Chilean band on tour traveling north from Chile to Peru and Ecuador....

¿Qué somete a un hombre al insomnio? ¿Qué reflexiones fecunda el vientre nocturno? Con los ojos abiertos de par en par, tendido en la larga y poderosa noche, el viento comienza a hablar, y en sus labios surge el poeta que piensa, que alumbra la oscuridad: “…Y la antorcha que es mi alma, y su chispa, la imaginación, junto al viento taciturno, en la noche reventó.” Maximiliano Vita nos muestra en este poemario las confabulaciones que arremeten entre el sueño y la vigilia, cuando el alba emerge entre las cenizas de la noche.

Silvina Ocampo possessed her own special enchantment as a poet, and only now is her extraordinary poetic achievement becoming more widely recognized beyond Latin America. Remarkably, this is the first collection of Ocampo’s poetry to appear in English. From her early sonnets on the native Argentine landscape, to her meditations on love’s travails, to her explorations of the kinship between plant and animal realms, to her clairvoyant inquiries into history and myth and memory, readers will find the full range of Ocampo’s “metaphysical lyricism” (The Independent) represented in this...

Mosaico Una piccola raccolta di poesie. Una raccolta di pensieri. Una raccolta di vita. Idee inorganiche sorte talvolta da un episodio, talvolta da una riflessione. Si parla di silenzi, di nero, di notte, ma anche di fiori, labbra e baci. Tratto dal libro: Pallida luce gialla Che illumini i miei fogli, Che leggi i miei pensieri Dimmi dove sta, Dimmi come sta. [...] L'attimo è l'istante in cui cerco di ascoltare l'infinito che dorme, muto, dentro di te, amore mio. [...]